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Confronting Concerns III
Little Sisters of the Assumption Program Workshop
July 15th, 2008
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Objectives:
- have participants feel comforatble sharing their voice and speaking out
- have participants discuss the negative effects of the three issues on their lives
- present the three CCIII issues to the participants
- have fun!
Welcome and Snacks
Introduction
1. Greet everyone and thank them for coming to this Confronting Concerns Workshop.
2. Explain why we are doing this workshop and why we have invited them all to come and discuss these issues.
3. Share our main objectives with them and let them know that they should feel free to share their opinions about the issues being discussed.
4. Explain that before we begin, we would like to come up with some community guidelines such as respect and one mic. Ask if anyone has any other guidelines and write all of the guidelines up on a sheet of paper so that everyone can see them during the workshop.
Warm-Up/Icebreaker
Name and a Motion
1. Tell participants that we will be playing a game called Name and a Motion.
2. Tell them that everyone has to say their name and then perform a motion that they feel describes their personality or how they are feeling right now.
3. Once someone shares their name and motion, everyone else does that person's name and motion.
4. The name and motion travels around the circle until everyone has shared
Segue: Tell participants that now they we have gotten to know each others names and how we're feeling, we want to get everyone to talk about some of the issues facing young people in our area.
Main Activity
1. Tell everyone that now we will be going a bit deeper into the issues brought up in Confronting Concerns. Tell the group that for the past two years, we have polled over 150 youth from all over Harlem and we have categorized their answers. What we found was that there are major concerns affecting the lives of Harlem youth.
2. Tell the group that the main concerns that young people had were around violence, drugs and sex. That is why we decided to focus on these issues for the workshop today.
3. Tell participants that the next activity will give them a chance to think about how these issues affect young people in their community, and also give them a chance to think about ways that these issues can be addressed.
4. Tell them that they will be broken up into three groups, and each group will receive a different scenario. Once they read the scenario, each group can either create a skit that shows how this issue can be resolved or discussed, or they can create a rap or poem about how to address the issue.
5. Count the participants off into three groups and give each group a scenario sheet. Give them 10 minutes to come up with their skits and then have each group present their skit to the rest of the group.
Scenarios:
1. Will is pressuring Chanell to have sex with him without a condom. She really likes him but doesnt want to do it. Her friends think that she should do it because he is cute and popular.
2. Asheley is 15 and is in an abusive relationship with Benny who is 21. She doesn't want to tell her friends because he's older and she is afraid of what he can do and she doesnt want to get him trouble. her friends know something is wrong but they don't think they can do anything.
3. Shawna and her close friends have started using illegal pills at school. They are now trying to convince Raymond to take the pill and will be bringing him one at school tomorrow. Raymond doesnt want to do it but he really wants to be accepted by this group.
Discussion of activity
Once all the groups have presented, have a discussion using the following questions to get it started:
1. Do you think these were realistic scenarios?
2. What can young people do to make more positive decisions around these issues?
3. Which issue do you think affects youth the most? Why?
4. What kind of support do youth need to help them make good decisions for their lives?
5. What can influence young people to take part in some dangerous behaviors?
6. If you could tell adults one thing about this issue, what would you tell them?
Conclusion
Once the discussion has ended, thank everyone for coming and taking part in the discussion. Tell them that there will be drinks and pizza coming up and they should stay for a little while and speak more with one another. Before the pizza, ask people to briefly share some of what they learned, or what they thought about the workshop today.
Evaluations
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